Deuteronomy 21

1 If someone is found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him,

「在耶和華－你上帝所賜你為業的地上，若遇見被殺的人倒在田野，不知道是誰殺的，

2 then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.

長老和審判官就要出去，從被殺的人那裏量起，直量到四圍的城邑，

3 It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke.

看哪城離被殺的人最近，那城的長老就要從牛群中取一隻未曾耕地、未曾負軛的母牛犢，

4 The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

把母牛犢牽到流水、未曾耕種的山谷去，在谷中打折母牛犢的頸項。

5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided.

祭司利未的子孫要近前來；因為耶和華－你的上帝揀選了他們事奉他，奉耶和華的名祝福，所有爭訟毆打的事都要憑他們判斷。

6 All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

那城的眾長老，就是離被殺的人最近的，要在那山谷中，在所打折頸項的母牛犢以上洗手，

7 They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

禱告說：『我們的手未曾流這人的血；我們的眼也未曾看見這事。

8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.

耶和華啊，求你赦免你所救贖的以色列民，不要使流無辜血的罪歸在你的百姓以色列中間。』這樣，流血的罪必得赦免。

9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

你行耶和華眼中看為正的事，就可以從你們中間除掉流無辜血的罪。」

10 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands and you carry them away captive,

「你出去與仇敵爭戰的時候，耶和華－你的上帝將他們交在你手中，你就擄了他們去。

11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife,

若在被擄的人中見有美貌的女子，戀慕她，要娶她為妻，

12 then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.

就可以領她到你家裏去；她便要剃頭髮，修指甲，

13 She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

脫去被擄時所穿的衣服，住在你家裏哀哭父母一個整月，然後可以與她同房。你作她的丈夫，她作你的妻子。

14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

後來你若不喜悅她，就要由她隨意出去，決不可為錢賣她，也不可當婢女待她，因為你玷污了她。」

15 If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,

「人若有二妻，一為所愛，一為所惡，所愛的、所惡的都給他生了兒子，但長子是所惡之妻生的。

16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;

到了把產業分給兒子承受的時候，不可將所愛之妻生的兒子立為長子，在所惡之妻生的兒子以上，

17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

卻要認所惡之妻生的兒子為長子，將產業多加一分給他；因這兒子是他力量強壯的時候生的，長子的名分本當歸他。」

18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,

「人若有頑梗悖逆的兒子，不聽從父母的話，他們雖懲治他，他仍不聽從，

19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.

父母就要抓住他，將他帶到本地的城門、本城的長老那裏，

20 They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

對長老說：『我們這兒子頑梗悖逆，不聽從我們的話，是貪食好酒的人。』

21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

本城的眾人就要用石頭將他打死。這樣，就把那惡從你們中間除掉，以色列眾人都要聽見害怕。」

22 If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

「人若犯該死的罪，被治死了，你將他掛在木頭上，

23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

他的屍首不可留在木頭上過夜，必要當日將他葬埋，免得玷污了耶和華－你上帝所賜你為業之地。因為被掛的人是在上帝面前受咒詛的。